system lags and dysfunctional after cygwin update

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12/05/2016 16:56, Ben Altman wrote:
> On 5/12/2016 10:44 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 12/05/2016 16:35, Ben Altman wrote:
>>
>>  Another thing that happens is that
>>> Internet Explorer stops working - it loads unresponsive and then
>>> crashes. Chrome loads but won't reach any website. Firefox works but
>>> will become unresponsive frequently. Rebooting fixes the issue until I
>>> do something in one of my scripts that triggers it again.
>>
>> These can not be an effect of cygwin.
>> Something else cripped your system.
>
> That is the puzzling thing. It only happens when I am running cygwin or
> babun and I can trigger it anytime just by doing ordinary scripting
> things. I can easily reproduce the situation though I obviously try to
> avoid that. The report script used to run twice daily during the day but
> because it now runs for up to 3 hours and causes the situation at the
> point where the joins are done I now run it at night so I can reboot my
> system first thing in the morning. If I run it during the day I would
> have to work with a slow system even after it completed so would need to
> reboot. I now have it set to run at night so I can reboot first thing in
> the morning.
>
> Before getting up to the joins, I grab data off an ldap server and use
> sqlcmd to get data from a sql server. I am getting data for 14 databases
> and I do it concurrently and it appears to work fine. When it reaches
> the joins, suddenly everything slows and becomes unstable. Another
> script I have which I use to search flat files also runs in to a similar
> situation though it doesn't use "join" and I haven't worked out which
> line triggers it.
>
> Ben


the cygcheck is from a Babun 32 bit installation on a 64 bit machine.
The DLL is also not recent

   Cygwin DLL version info:
         DLL version: 1.7.35

Any chance to install a minimal 64bit Cygwin to see if the problem
is still there ?

Regards
Marco










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